Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2019 16:41:24 UTC+2 schrieb William:
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> The sequence
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> {1} = {1}
> {1} U {1, 2} = {1, 2}
> {1} U {1, 2} U {1, 2, 3} = {1, 2, 3}
> ...
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> is a potentially infinite sequence.
That is not what I prove. My proof is this: If the set |N is actually infinite, that is: larger than all FISONs, then this |N contains dark numbers.
> That means it always has a last
> FISON. The Last FISON clearly contains all natural numbers in the FISONS
> in the list. Every natural number is in some FISON. Thus the natural numbers are contained in the last FISON. (The last FISON is a Wolkenmuekenheim special, something that changes.
That is not speciality of mine but known to every good mathematician like Cantor, Hilbert, ..., Simpson:
"In spite of significant difference between the notions of the potential and actual infinite, where the former is a variable finite magnitude, growing above all limits," [Cantor, p. 374]
"In analysis we have to deal only with the infinitely small and the infinitely large as a limit-notion, as something becoming, emerging, produced, i.e., as we put it, with the potential infinite." [D. Hilbert: "Über das Unendliche", Mathematische Annalen 95 (1925) p. 167]
"A potential infinity is a quantity which is finite but indefinitely large. For instance, when we enumerate the natural numbers as 0, 1, 2, ..., n, n+1, ..., the enumeration is finite at any point in time, but it grows indefinitely and without bound." [S.G. Simpson: "Potential versus actual infinity: insights from reverse mathematics" (2015)]
> The natural numbers are not contained in a fixed FISON.)
Correct. The maximum F(m) is increasing forever, but never becoming infinite and never more than one FISON.
> WM is also fond of the false statement: If there is no FISON that contains all natural numbers then there must be two natural numbers that are not in a single FISON. This does not follow.
Perhaps not in matheology in the theory of Zero Findable Contradictions. In ordinary logic it follows. What does it mean, that not all natnumbers are contained? That means according to current logic that at least one natnumber is not contained. Since one is contained, we have two numbers that are not in a single FISON.
> Any set of two natural numbers, indeed any set of natural numbers with a largest element, is contained within a single FISON.
All natnumbers that can be specified can be found in FISONs.
> That does not mean that any set of natural numbers without a largest element is contained in a single FISON.
Name a natnumber or a FISON that is not in the infinite sequence:
{1} = {1}
{1} U {1, 2} = {1, 2}
{1} U {1, 2} U {1, 2, 3} = {1, 2, 3}
...
All the contents of the sequence, all natnumbers contained in FISONs, all FISONs contained in unions, all that is contained in one single FISON. The right-hand side does not contain your magic unions that allegedly are larger than all unioned elements.
> [Again there is no problem in Wolkenmuekenheim where the natural numbers are potentially infinite, and thus any existing set of natural numbers has a largest element]
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> The FISON
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> {1,2,3,...,Largest existing Natural}
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> is a (changing) FISON that contains all existing natural numbers if and only if tha Largest existing Natural always exists.
Otherwise we have evidence for dark numbers.
Regards, WM